Abstract painting: concepts and techniques

Preface / Barry Schwabsky

1. What is abstract and what is real?

2. The tradition of abstract painting

3. The psychology and physiology of seeing

4. Painting with oils

5. Painting with acrylics

6. Color

7. Form

8. Texture

9. Composition

10. Pictorial space

11. Brush and easel paint construction

12. Poured paint

13. Staining with paint

14. Painting in layers

15. Approaches to the practice of painting

16. Beyond techniques

Pigment properties

Supplies

Sources of quoted material.